TRANSPORT CRISIS.
GRAIN ROTTING, RUSSIA IN TROUBLE LONDON, March. IS. Despite 'die repeated re-adaption ol the locomotives to use coal, naphtha, or wood, whichever was available, the shortage of all three has created a fuel crisis in Russia which, with the shortage of trucks and locomotives, is becoming a catastrophe. The most serious congestion prevails at sidings, in warehouses, ana in all the producing districts, where stocks have been delayed for months, says the Riga correspondent of tne Times. Officially it is stated that 7000 trucks of grain have accumulated at three junctions near lamboy, and many have not been moved since November, resulting in the grain rotting, while 80,000 further tons of grain are waiting in warehouses The Commissar for M. Rudzutak, declares that the transport crisis is menacing the entire economic system. Stocks of locomotives and trucks are exhausted and there are no means of lepairing and renewing them. The truck shortage at present is 50,000.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 105, 3 April 1926, Page 11
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